Lobi Bronze Bracelet Currency

Woven-looking crosshatch covers this gray-brown ring from end to end.

This bracelet currency is Lobi, from Burkina Faso, West Africa, and dates to the 20th century. It is bronze. Several forms of metal currency existed across Africa before coins, including rings, rods and blades, each valued by weight and by local custom. Structurally, a sturdy, round-sectioned band with a cross-hatched pattern across the whole outer surface. One end carries a small bump, and both are blunt and slightly worn. The surface is matte gray-brown with a few dark pits. It is 2.5 inches wide, 2.75 deep and 0.5 high.

Textured all over, like it was knitted in a workshop.